administrative tools

Thanks in advance for your assistance. I have a weekly requirement to view and clear the Windows Security Logs on my hardened Windows 7 computer. This has been working fine up until last week. When I open up my saved EventViewer.mmc console, I receive the following error: "Event Log Service is...

It seems that when I got my computer, it had one partition. Then I dug into administrative settings and discovered that I really had four. One was Windows 7 (C:\), which I labeled, one was HP_TOOLS (P:\) and contains a "backup of the bios", one was SYSTEM_ (V:\) which contains a copy of various...

In this guest post, Andrew Cox, Director of Technology at Aiken County Public School District, shares his story of the positive impact upgrading to Windows 10 has had on the South Carolina school district. Aiken Count Public School District first began working with Microsoft when we adopted...

Hi everyone, I know for Windows, after XP, when you do an install, Windows creates two separate partitions. One being the System Parition (Housing all of the boot files, boot sector and it's code, and all sorts of decryption coding and the like) and it also creates the Boot Partition (housing...

I was trying to access the Device Manager recently to uninstall all the unused drivers I've accumulated that have been causing me problems, I came to the conclusion that the Device Manager just won't open/run for me. There are no error messages, It just won't open. From everything I've read...

When I currently open the menu START->ControlPanel->AdministrativeTools then there is no further cascading submenu with all parts like - Services- - Computer Management - Event Viewer ... Ok, I could click on it and a window with all the entries will popup, but I prefer another...

In the past I typed services.msc in the run entry field to access directly the Servcies dialog. Now I wanted to use it again (under WIndows 7). Unfortunately it cannot be found by Win7. Did the name changed? Yes, it is still accessible through Control Panel-->Administrative tools but I...

Hi all, I have a problem with very annoying pop-up that appears on every system startup. It is titled: "Failed to connect to a windows service" and it's written: "Windows could not connect to the Group Policy Client service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As...

My personal account is setup as admin by default but prefer to set it with user rights. Before I do that I would like to create an Admin account to cover admin issues when needed. When the admin user account is created it only shows one field for entering the new password and no 2nd field to...

First: A little Information: Full Article @ Microsoft Offering Improved CHKDSK Utility in Windows 8 -- Redmondmag.com Tutorial for running CHKDSK: There are 2 options to running CHKDSK (Check Disk) in Windows 8 Option #1: Run CHKDSK from "My Computer" 1. Open "My Computer" either from...

I am seeing a utility that will let me enter the command that I use in XP and then tell me what the corresponding comand or sequence of comands are in Windows 7. What I am finding is I am spending many hours locating the correct set of sequences to do something which is very straightforward in...

Not sure if this is the correct place for this but...this morning I noticed an exclamation in my taskbar that services were not running. I looked for services.msc in the search in the start button, but nothing came up. I also typed in MSConfig in the search in the start button search, and...

I want to specify from command line that user "Karl" has Full access to local folder (and subfolders) D:\proj\logs Which command is recommended here: cacls or "net share" What is the difference? Is "net share" for folders the same as "cacls" for files? Peter

So my story is this, since some time one time per month more or less with a normal use of the computer my Windows decides it's time to corrupt a folder/file, whatever, pretty sad indeed, what it also does is somehow disable my autochk.exe and my chkdsk.exe so that I can't fix this problem, but...

Whenever I try to run any Administrative tool or some, but not all, programs, I get a message box that says, "Class not Registered". Generally, most of Windows 7 appears to work, but System Restore is broken, can't make a Restore Point, Administrative Tools doesn't work, and a couple of...

When I click in Win7 the menu Start->Control Panel then I found a sub entry "Adminstrative Tools". In good ol' WinXP I could expand a sub context menu by just hovering on it. In Win7 I have to click on "Administrative Tools" to get a dialog window with all the tools. Is there a way to...

I have spent days trying to solve this problem - so any suggestions will be most gratefully received! I run a group of Windows XP Professional (SP3, 32 bit) machines in a workgroup, all using the same id and password, the id being in the administrators group on each machine. One of the...

Can someone explain why there are three start menus?? 1. All Users 2. Profile 3. under ProgramData I understand the reason for one under All Users and each profile - What I don't understand is why some entries are duplicated in each. I don't understand the ProgramData Start Menu and why...

How do you locate the Administrative Tools in Windows 7?

When I first installed win7 I was setting up my start menu how I want it and without thinking, I deleted all my administrative tools from my entire computer. They are totally gone from my control panel and everything. I hope they might be in a windows folder somewhere and the tools in...